Photographed at Piper's Lagoon. Heron pairs are together only when they are on the nest. That’s where they do their courtship and all their interactions around raising their young. When they fly off to find food for themselves and their young, they go separately, not together.

Photographed in Nanaimo. Juncos have earned the honorary title of winter-birds, or snowbirds because they arrive in fall and disappear in spring. This is the opposite pattern of most migratory birds who arrive in spring and go south for winter. #BirdsOfTwitter #birdphotography